Saul's Book
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (916 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1563334623 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Paul T. Rogers' insight into life and devotion in New York's most infamous district made Saul's Book a literary sensation; the author's tragic demise in that same world made his first and only novel legendary.. Winner of the First Annual Editors' Book Award. The story of a Times Square hustler called Sinbad the Sailor and Saul, a brilliant, self-destructive, alcoholic, thoroughly dominating character who may be the only love Sindab will ever know
Sinbad The Seaman Scott M. Marcus Sinbad. Have you ever read one of those books which managed to haunt you for days afterwards? It just sticks with you and refuses to let go? I just finished reading a book like that, the kind of book I would include in a ten books on a deserted island list were I ever faced with such a scenario. I can't shake the narrator of this book, he's been on my mind for a week now. As I began to reach the final chapter . CielRouge@worldnet.Att.net said Revelation, New York's sexual apocalypse clock ticking. Mr. Roger's has created a sort of Pygmallion meets Midnight Cowboy during the explosive years of New York's Sexual wars while the Time's Square Sex-Clubs and bathhouses cruised into their twighlight. A crumpled postcard of New York found in a leather jacket excavated under the debris that obscures the seventies before sexwas officially declared lethal. Roger's is a prophet on the great white way where pedestri. Exquisite writing; a must-read. A Customer Saul's Book ranks among the top three gay fiction novels written (others are Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room", and Holleran's "Dancer From the Dance"). The writing is vivid and stunning; the characters are extremely well drawn such that you understand their motivations completely while despairing of their choices. A very compelling read. Come, see what great writing is.
. Shocking, brutal, and unrepentantly literary, Saul's Book tells the story of Sinbad, a teenage hustler, and Saul, his older, criminal lover. Out of print for almost a decade, the reissue of Saul's Book is an important literary event. A cross between Last Exit to Brooklyn and City of Night, Saul's Book is an honest, unsparing and frightening look not only at life on the streets, but at how salvation of any sort comes at an enormous price. Saul's Book was first published by Pushcart Press in 1983 and awarded the Editor's Book Award as one of the outstanding novels of the year. It was an ironic moment; the book had been turned down by more